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Employers Mitigating Risk and Building Resilience: Response to Early-Onset Cancer

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Gabby Hines

Associate, Public Health
Gabby Hines is an associate on the Public Health team at the Milken Institute.
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Hadly Clark

Director, FasterCures, Milken Institute Health
Hadly Clark is a director at Milken Institute’s FasterCures. She is an experienced health care professional focused on the intersection of health and technology. Clark leads digital health and oncology-focused initiatives exploring innovative diagnostic technologies and advancements in anticancer treatments.
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Sabrina Spitaletta

Senior Director, Public Health, Employer Action Exchange
Sabrina Spitaletta has been at the Milken Institute since 2017. She leads the work focused on the role of employers advancing public health and develops strategic collaborations across sectors and industries to advance whole-person health and performance at work and in the community.
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Lena Flaum

Senior Associate, Public Health
Lena Flaum is a senior associate on the public health team at Milken Institute Health. As a communications liaison, she leads various project-related writing and editing to amplify the team’s work across its three focus areas of mental health, prevention and chronic disease, and health equity.
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Employers are uniquely positioned to anticipate and respond to emerging and escalating risks that impact their employees, businesses, and surrounding communities through the Milken Institute’s Employer Action Exchange (EAE) framework. The EAE framework leverages four key areas to drive meaningful change inside and outside the workplace: organizational culture and well-being, health-care policy and programs, community and business investments, and raising industry or sector standards.

Data shows that cancer is becoming more common among young people ages 19–39 in the workforce, with research indicating that the global incidence of cancer in this group could rise by 31 percent by 2030. Additionally, young adults without cancer are also affected by this trend; millennials now account for one in four caregivers in the United States caring for parents, relatives, or partners with cancer. With more than 63 percent of cancer survivors continuing to work or returning to work after diagnosis, employers can play a key role by investing in upstream actions and building a network of support.

The EAE, led by Sabrina Spitaletta, senior director at the Milken Institute, recently hosted an invite-only roundtable at which employers and patient advocates discussed the role of employers in addressing early-onset cancer in the workplace. This brief captures key priorities, related insights, and actionable steps employers can take to advance the health of their employees, businesses, and communities.

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